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• House Swift Apus nipalensis

  

  The House Swift is a swift with a dark body, a white throat patch, and a broad white rump band. It catches insects in flight and forages over forests and towns.

• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis

  The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is widespread on mainland Australia. Adults have distinctive cheek feathers, and a study in inland New South Wales recorded movements associated with flowers and fruit.

• Blyth's Rosefinch Carpodacus grandis

  Blyth's Rosefinch is a large rosefinch of high-elevation conifer forest and areas near the treeline. Males and females differ in plumage.

• Unicolored Jay Aphelocoma unicolor

  This jay inhabits montane forests in northwestern Central America. It uses pine and oak forests and feeds on invertebrates, including insects.

• Green Hermit Phaethornis guy

  This large hummingbird has a long curved bill and white-tipped tail feathers. It feeds on nectar in the understory and edges of humid forest.

• Andaman Green Pigeon Treron chloropterus

  The Andaman Green Pigeon is a green pigeon whose male has a maroon back. It forages in the canopy at fruiting trees.

• Mayotte Scops Owl Otus mayottensis

  The Mayotte Scops Owl is found only on Mayotte. It occurs in grey, brown, and rufous plumage morphs and has yellow eyes.

• White-crested Tyrannulet Serpophaga subcristata

  This tyrannulet has yellow-bellied and whitish-bellied forms. Both use scrub and open woodland, avoiding closed forest. It ranges from Bolivia south to Argentina.

• Grey-headed Bulbul Brachypodius priocephalus

  The Grey-headed Bulbul has a gray head, yellow forehead, and silvery rump and tail. It occurs in wet forest and forest edge in India, gleaning food at all forest levels.

• Australian Tern Gelochelidon macrotarsa

  The Australian Tern is a medium-sized waterbird of Australia and New Guinea. It takes prey on land as well as around water and was recently separated from the Common Gull-billed Tern.

• Mauritius Fody Foudia rubra

  The Mauritius Fody is endemic to Mauritius. Males develop a red head and neck during the breeding season, while females remain olive-coloured throughout the year.

• Grey-crowned Negrofinch Nigrita canicapillus

  This small bird occurs in forests from western to eastern Africa. Its silvery-grey crown and back contrast with a black face and white spots on the upper wings.

• Dusky thrush Turdus eunomus

  In Japan it arrives in woodland in autumn and also uses fields, riverbanks and lawns in winter. It runs over the ground and repeatedly pauses.

• Blue-winged Mountain Tanager Anisognathus somptuosus

  A tanager of Andean cloud forests, marked by a yellow crown and underparts and blue edging on the wings. It ranges from Colombia to Bolivia and often joins mixed-species flocks.

• Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Clamator coromandus

  The Chestnut-winged Cuckoo has a long tail, chestnut plumage, and a black crest. It breeds in temperate Eurasia and passes through or winters in Southeast Asia from autumn to spring.

• Northern Silvery Kingfisher Ceyx flumenicola

  This kingfisher is endemic to Bohol, Leyte and Samar in the central Philippines. It uses forested streams and river edges, where a low perch gives it a view of the water.

• Antillean Piculet Nesoctites micromegas

  This small piculet lives on Hispaniola. Its yellow crown and the streaked pale underside are distinctive.

• Plain-winged Antshrike Thamnophilus schistaceus

  This antshrike forages in the middle levels of Amazonian forest and often joins mixed-species flocks. Plumage differs by sex and between birds north and south of the Amazon River.

• Chestnut-winged Starling Onychognathus fulgidus

  The Chestnut-winged Starling has dark plumage with purple, green, and blue iridescence and chestnut patches on its wings.

• Torrent Duck Merganetta armata

  The torrent duck lives on fast rivers in the Andes. It dives into the current to catch aquatic insect larvae and other small prey.

• Yunnan Fulvetta Alcippe fratercula

  This small bird lives from southern China into northern Indochina, in evergreen broadleaf forest, secondary forest, bamboo and scrub. It has a grey head, a blackish crown stripe and a white eye-ring.

• Cuban Oriole Icterus melanopsis

  It is endemic to Cuba and Isla de Pinos. It lives in forests, plantations, and human-settled places; adult males and females are alike, with black plumage and yellow patches.

• Mountain hawk-eagle Nisaetus nipalensis

  A large forest hawk-eagle with broad wings and a crest at the back of the head.

• Long-billed Woodcreeper Nasica longirostris

  A large woodcreeper of Amazonian floodplain forest, it is marked by a rufous back and a long, pale bill.